Elbows Up is a just a neolib wool over the eyes to go on perpetuating the same bullshit that led to the decay of morality and giving rise to fascism. Get pissed at your leaders and call them out on their bullshit.

Congress looses more power and relevance doing nothing than if they fight tooth and nail to uphold the constitution, even if it means they die trying.

Not my downvotes by the way; just hoping to convey the importance that symbolism, resilience, and messaging are in politics. It’s the unfortunate reason the right wing and their bigotry took center stage in the 2020s; because their brand and messaging was cohesive and on point. Something that bested the Democrats because it’s what they’ve lacked for a long, long time.

About fucking time. Even if it’d be veto, Congress should’ve been pushing for this among other things on a daily basis since the pedo in chief took office

I’m reading this within two hours of setting up and playing around with my own local SearXNG instance. I’m glad people are utilizing a more privacy respecting platform, but too bad it’s more about “God! Fuck this AI shit, get it out of my face!” more-so than people taking control of their own privacy.

Don’t get me wrong though, “God! Fuck this AI shit, get it out of my face!” is the appropriate response.

Replace “HOPE” with “CHOMO”, and I believe we got a winner

I always wished I had an eye for that kind of thing; no I haven’t noticed that!

I always assumed the point of the movie was to show how stupid the idea of the “White Man’s Burden” and white persecution complex was, with some critique of American exceptionslism thrown

Throughout the movie, I wanted it to be satirical, and wanted to believe that it was exactly this because of how ridiculous and exploitative aspects of this movie are. But there so many moments where the film was intentionally trying to get me to sympathize for the character and made it feel very sincere.

I shouldn’t be surprised that some people took the exact opposite from the film and empathize with the MC. Kind of reminds me of Fight Club in that sense.

Absolutely this, and in more extreme cases with movies like American History X too. But American History X’s message is obvious to me and I really believe you’d have to be pretty moronic, as neonazis usually are, to believe it’s a pro-white supremacy movie and feel empowered by it. Fight Club is more subtle, but I believe it gives more opportunity for people not to identify with the opposite of the message, even for those that don’t know or get it. I just didn’t feel that way about Falling Down.

But I don’t know man, you’ve actually inspired me to want to rewatch it; see if I feel any differently.

Falling Down (1993). The main character attacking minorities, saying American conservative shit, and enablement of urban paranoia was pretty unsettling. The black comedy undertones did get me to chuckle once or twice, but overall just an upsetting thinking of some people sympathizing with the MC in a way that led conservatism to what it is today. The fact that he killed a neonazi does not balance it out.

For real, I hope OP his their metadata in this photo lol

AOC included, but overall this criticism best applies to the Democratic party. In the game of politics, despite of what we know about MTG, yes, she outflanked the Democratic party on the genocidal Israel issue.

It’s true; she did vote last year, and openly stated, that she for funding Israel’s defense, and received a lot of backlash and criticism for it. Thankfully she’s started to take the right response to the issue now, but it was super poorly handled at the time because she doubled down not realizing that’s about as good being open to funding the defense for Nazi Germany.

I like AOC, and think she’s a great fit for the senate, but I often criticise her political instincts at this point in her career.

What lies?

These things don’t exist on the east coast AFAIK. And DD is a predatory company that fucks everyone in the equation. You’re also on your own for the depreciation of your car and cost of gas (damn, good luck with that), and have money set aside, up to 30%, just for taxes; not to mention keeping track of all expenses that can count as a loss to avoid paying so much in taxes. You’re likely to make less than minimum wage after all is said and done.

Idk anything about Safeway, but an annoying job with union benefits sounds a lot better than doing gig economy exclusively in an economy that’s going to absolutely fuck you in the ass pretty soon. Hell, you’re better off picking up extra hours, studying, or working on a real side gig with that spare time than really slaving away with DD.

Wishlisted with swiftness

Mods need to take this shit down

A ceasefire according to Israel means “You cease, and we fire”. Fucking liars, killers and demons.

Other than agreeing about the bit about Hollywood, I don’t have much of an opinion honestly.

I just wanted to say I appreciate the googly eyes on Chewbacca in this image.

They better be asked about how they’re going to prosecute all these fucking criminals in the White House

It’s amazing how irrational that is when you put it that way, isn’t it?

They really do just hate the working class, don’t they? Even if it means a net negative in productivity.

Generally what happens when you start a forever war.

It’s the only thing Republicans do other than taxcuts for the rich and fucking up the economy.